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Sentimental Value (2025)

Sentimental Value (2025)

Sentimental Value starts with a narration of the history of a house, a gorgeous piece of  Norwegian folk architecture that looks like a relic in modern Oslo. Generations of...

Linda
The Inspection (2022)

The Inspection (2022)

Ellis (Jeremy Pope), a sweet 20-something gay Black man with a dimpled smile, whiles away his days at an urban homeless shelter. While watching TV one evening, he sees...

Linda
Years and Years (2019)

Years and Years (2019)

If it didn’t already mirror real life, there would be something kind of brilliant about a brash new-to-politics B-grade celebrity rising to power based on her penchant to speak...

Linda
Waves (2019)

Waves (2019)

In the opening moments of Waves, the camera spins euphorically as it follows a day in the life of 18-year-old Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). He goes to school, he...

Linda
This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

A gaggle of estranged adult siblings return home when the patriarch of the family passes away. Sibling heckling occurs, secrets are revealed, and they’ve all just maybe grown up...

Linda
The Skeleton Twins

The Skeleton Twins

Former Saturday Night Live co-stars Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader build on their existing friendship and professional history to co-star as dysfunctional twins Maggie and Milo, and the result...

Vickie
August: Osage County

August: Osage County (2013)

August: Osage County features its own special sort of effed up family. Matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep) is a withering mean old biddy. Violet has been diagnosed with mouth cancer—which...

Linda
Everybody's Fine

Everybody’s Fine

Everybody’s Fine is not your typical cheery, laugh-a-minute holiday movie.  Instead, the film touches on love, loss, disappointment, and reconciliation.  It feels a lot like real life and is...

Jennifer
Loverboy (2005)

Loverboy (2005)

When it comes to independent films, it seems I’m always complaining that there is no ending, or at least no sense of resolution when the credits roll. Loverboy is...

Jennifer
People Like Us (2012)

People Like Us (2012)

In a performance that is powerful and yet beautifully nuanced, Elisabeth Banks walks away with every scene she’s in and proves herself a formidable acting talent in a way...

Vickie
Falcon Crest Season 1

Falcon Crest: Season 1 (1981)

I’m smacking myself on the head at this moment.  I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how to justify a comparison between Falcon Crest and The Waltons to...

Jennifer
Love Sick (Legãturi bolnãvicioase)

Love Sick (Legãturi bolnãvicioase) (2006)

The story centers on Bucharest university students Alex (Ioana Barbu) and Christina (Zooey Deschanel look-alike Maria Popistasu), who are over the moon about each other. Clandestine girlfriends, who mask...

Vickie